But it was with one of Beethoven's string trios — Op 9 No 3 in C minor — that they started. It's always fascinating to hear the young Beethoven finding his own way around the Vienneseclassicalstyle, and the players were with him every step of the way, from the restlessness of the opening movement, through the switches between strenuousness and calm in the second, to the sinewy energy of the finale...